The Clean “Getting Older” b/w “Scrap Music” & “Whatever I Do Is Right/Wrong” 7"

THIS IS A PREORDER. IT SHIPS NOVEMBER 2026.

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• The 1982 single returns to black 7-inch vinyl.
• Viola, trumpet, maracas, and drone guitar build the title track.
• The two B-sides explore layered instrumentals and a guitar-free arrangement.

For fans of: Flying Nun, The Bats, The Chills.

Released posthumously after the band first split in late 1982, "Getting Older" was their humble attempt at a "Wall Of Sound" style production, with overdubbed viola, trumpet, maracas and drone guitar accompanied by backing vocals from Chris Knox and Martin Phillipps. The b-sides show the band at possibly their most experimental, with "Scrap Music" being two separate performances of the same instrumental laid over the top of each other with one panned from side to side. "Whatever I Do is Right/Wrong" features no guitar at all — a bold move from a band known for its inventive guitaring.

Collectors should take note that this 7-inch contains a small hidden extra — a few extra seconds of group discussion and false starts preceding "Whatever I Do is Right/Wrong" (humorously titled "Arguing" on the back cover) that has been shaved off from all previous digital releases of the song.

Reflecting the way they were originally issued in 1982, these reissues will be pressed on black vinyl and have been remastered by Tex Houston with fresh transfers of the original master tapes that are held at Alexander Turnbull Library (National Library of New Zealand Te Puna M?tauranga o Aotearoa).

UPC: 673855085371